Overnight, a harsh winter descended, causing over a billion deaths and injuries globally.

Even more terrifying than the dark turmoil and beastly chaos a year ago.

The internet is flooded with people cursing and spreading panic, declaring the end of the world, that everyone is doomed...

Even biologists pessimistically believe that another ice age is coming, where countless species will be destroyed in this century.

Then some people, in despair and madness, want to vent their anger in their final moments, letting the world feel pain...

Unfortunately, they were frozen to death shortly after stepping out.

"The elderly at home died last night, and I'm barely holding on. I was worried yesterday that the heavy snow blocked the roads, making it impossible to go out, and the food supply at home might not last a week. Now the firewood is nearly burned through, and the house is almost buried by snow. I suppose I'll die tomorrow before the food runs out..."

People living in rural houses said despairingly.

"Poor thing, luckily I live on the twenty-eighth floor, so I don't have to worry about the building being buried by snow just yet. But we have no food reserves at home; I used to order takeout. I don't think I'll last a few days now."

Someone replied below with a sense of shared despair.

"Living on the twenty-eighth floor too, I just visited the neighbor opposite and found their whole family dead. I moved their blankets, cotton clothes, and food back home. Not sure how many more days it will last me; I'll check downstairs tomorrow."

"Kind person upstairs, I'll go borrow some things from the neighbors..."

"Upstairs hasn't replied for half an hour; I'm afraid they might be in trouble."

"Serves them right!"

A group of people lonely posted and replied online because they know, even if they can survive a little longer in the harsh winter, eventually, as the snow persists, there will be a water, electricity, and internet outage. By then, even if they have leftover food, they won't find anyone to talk to all day and might be driven insane.

Just then, people began posting en masse, quickly being boosted to trending posts.

"Good news, good news, the government has started saving us! Just recently, someone cleared the snow blocking my front door and came in with a kind of pill. After eating it, I felt warm all over, like I could even go out for a snowball fight without a problem."

A person posted with a few photos: first, a small black pill in their palm, then the cleared snow outside, a pixelated man's face, walking around shirtless indoors, and a poised posture at the doorway...

"Did the poster also receive the life-saving pill? How many did they receive?"

"Also curious, how many pills did the poster receive? Did all family members get one? My grandfather didn't get one..."

With the poster's post, people quickly replied, probing to find out the number of pills each received.

"Damn, is the poster serious, are the replies above not bots? Is the pill really effective? How much does it sell for?"

Some believe they are bots from a pharmaceutical company trying to sell pills for profit. Yet, even if they doubt a single pill can help them withstand this cold snap, with the mindset that money is useless if they're dead, they all want to try.

After all, they consider it cash on delivery; if it's fake, those money-grubbers will probably freeze to death on the road!

But the poster's reply left them uncertain.

"Didn't I say it's the government saving us? Selling for money? This medicine is free, plus I don't have elderly at home—just my parents and wife, and we all received one pill. The staff said this one pill should let us last for three days, and hopefully in three days they'll deliver more pills, so don't lose hope."

"Seriously? Then why hasn't my family received it? I just checked with the community group, and no one in our area has received it?"

Someone questioned.

Another replied with resentment: "Why did your whole family get it while only my sister and I received it, and my mom hasn't, just lying in bed waiting to die!"

"Same here, only the young people in my family received the pill, but the elderly didn't. Isn't this forcing the elderly to die?"

Someone else followed up, feeling it's highly unfair.

Then someone explained: "Regarding the above questions, I'm also a cultivator, so I somewhat know the reason. Let me explain to everyone...

"Firstly, ordinary people can't go out in the current climate, so those distributing elixirs to save lives must have cultivation in Energy Transformation. But there are only tens of thousands of Energy Transformation Warriors nationwide, compared to the over a billion population, it's too scarce. Even if they all worked as couriers, how could they deliver elixirs to everyone's doors in one day?!

"That's why some have already received elixirs, while others haven't. But don't panic; you should be able to receive them...

"Secondly, do you think it's simple to make these life-saving elixirs? I can tell you, it's not like last year's Beauty Pill, a regular pill, mass-produced to supply nationally or internationally without shortage! Because it's an elixir, not a regular pill!

"And the difference between elixirs and regular pills is that elixirs require manual craftsmanship and cannot be mass-produced. Normally, an Alchemist refining a batch of elixirs needs at least over an hour for a successful batch if lucky. If unlucky, it goes bust, wasting all the materials!

"With this explanation, you should understand why elixirs are scarce, right? If sold, one elixir costing tens of thousands, even millions, wouldn't be a problem!

"And Spiritual Energy Revival has only been around for over a year, so there aren't many Alchemists nationwide. Even if there were no cultivators using elixirs for cultivation, but continuously refined successful elixirs for storage, I bet there wouldn't be a reserve for over a billion elixirs!

"This Ice Age arrived suddenly, even with emergency refinement by Alchemists and existing elixir reserves, do you think it's enough to supply the whole nation?

"Moreover, ingesting one elixir does not make you immune for a year or a month. As someone mentioned above, it lasts roughly three days, then... what about after three days?

"Can the government take out over a billion elixirs again for everyone to use as life-saving pills?

"I doubt it! Even if all elixir reserves are used, and Alchemists work tirelessly every hour without sleep refining elixirs, and succeed each time, how many elixirs do you think would be available in the end?

"Hence, elixir distribution must have trade-offs; like in fire or earthquake disasters, who do you rescue first? The elderly? Certainly not. Women and children are prioritized, followed by young men, lastly the elderly...

"We should all be grateful that over the past year, our country consistently promoted nationwide martial cultivation, encouraging everyone in cultivation to strengthen their bodies. Otherwise, we young people could never survive the first day of the Ice Age!

"Though global death data isn't available yet, I believe, compared to other countries letting people evolve under Spiritual Energy Revival while we adhered strictly to cultivation and transformation, our casualties in this Ice Age should be lesser than abroad!

"So please don't lose hope; the government will surely find a way to save us in the end!"

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